Mushtaq Ali T20 2019: Cricket Fraternity applauds as Karnataka become champions for second time

Karnataka had also won the Vijay Hazare Trophy this season and were the defending champions in this tournament.

Manish Pandey played a captain's knock of 60 | APThe final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali 2019 T20 Trophy was played between Karnataka, the defending champions and Tamil Nadu at the Lalbhai Contractor Stadium in Surat.

Dinesh Karthik won the toss and chose to bowl first. KL Rahul (22) and Devdutt Padikkal (32) added 39 runs for the first wicket. But then Ashwin picked Rahul and Mayank in two balls. However, Manish Pandey played a captain’s knock of 60* with 2 sixes and 4 fours and Rohit Kadam made 35 to take the Karnataka team to 180/5 in 20 overs.

R Ashwin (2/34) and M Ashwin (3/33) were the best bowlers for Tamil Nadu.

Vijay Shankar top scored for TN by making 44 runs | TwitterThe Karnataka team kept picking wickets at regular intervals as none of the TN batsmen reached fifty. Vijay Shankar made 44 and Sundar continued his terrific form with 24. Baba Aparajith made 40 with 3 sixes and 1 four. It came down to 3 runs off the last ball of the last over, bowled by K Gowtham, who had been hit for 2 fours on the first two balls of the over.

However, M Ashwin, who was on strike, could manage just one run and Karnataka won the final by just 1 run. Ronit More picked 2/32, while K Gowtham, S Gopal and J Suchith picked one wicket apiece. With this win, Karnataka completed a sweep in limited-overs tournaments, as they had won the Vijay Hazare Trophy, in which they had defeated Tamil Nadu as well.

Twitter was in a daze after watching a thrilling final between two amazing sides and the cricket fraternity praised Karnataka, who defended their title successfully.

Here are some of the best tweets:

 

 
 

By Jatin Sharma - 01 Dec, 2019

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